{"id":553629,"date":"2023-02-18T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-shadowless-tower-review-a-wry-and-wistful-chinese-charmer\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:55:32","slug":"watch-the-shadowless-tower-review-a-wry-and-wistful-chinese-charmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-shadowless-tower-review-a-wry-and-wistful-chinese-charmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Shadowless Tower&#8217; Review: A Wry and Wistful Chinese Charmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41411329442\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41411329442\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-shadowless-tower-review-a-wry-and-wistful-chinese-charmer\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Shadowless_Tower_Review_A_Wry_and_Wistful_Chinese_Charmer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Shadowless Tower&#8217; Review: A Wry and Wistful Chinese Charmer&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-shadowless-tower-review-a-wry-and-wistful-chinese-charmer\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Shadowless_Tower_Review_A_Wry_and_Wistful_Chinese_Charmer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Shadowless Tower&#8217; Review: A Wry and Wistful Chinese Charmer&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Shadowless_Tower_Review_A_Wry_and_Wistful_Chinese_Charmer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Shadowless Tower&#8217; Review: A Wry and Wistful Chinese Charmer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Shadowless_Tower_Review_A_Wry_and_Wistful_Chinese_Charmer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Shadowless Tower&#8217; Review: A Wry and Wistful Chinese Charmer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The eccentric design of the White Pagoda, a 13th-century Buddhist temple in the Xicheng district of Beijing, makes it hard to see its shadow. This has given rise to the local legend that its shade can actually be found some two thousand miles away in Tibet, the temple\u2019s spiritual home. The landmark is a constant presence in Chinese director Zhang Lu\u2019s tender, brimming \u201cThe Shadowless Tower,\u201d which fixes its setting in the very heart of the Chinese capital, a city rarely portrayed as fondly as it is here. But the pagoda can also be seen as an evocatively imperfect metaphor for a lifestage: that tipping point in the middle of one\u2019s time when, with the past and future weighing equally on either side, you can feel disoriented and suddenly directionless, as when the sun is directly overhead and you cast no shadow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The gently befuddled Gu Wentong (Xin Baiqing) is at just such a juncture. A moderately successful food and restaurant critic and a lifelong Beijing native, he is a doting but only occasional father to his h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y, bright little daughter Smiley (Wang Yiwen). She lives in the daily care of his sister Wenhui (Li Qinqin) and her husband Li Jun (Wang Hongwei), though Gu frequently drops by, sometimes tipsily, late at night to check in on her. Gu, a writer whose talent for poetry apparently never quite equalled his love for it, is divorced and estranged from Smiley\u2019s mother, and his own mother has recently died. When Gu was five years old, his dad was accused of molestation on a city bus, and his mom threw him out. Gu has had no contact with him since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The two main strands of action \u2014 if a film paced at such a calm, pleasant stroll can be said to have as much \u2014 are Gu\u2019s tentative romance with his 25-year-old photographer Ouyang (a spritely, engaging Huang Yao) and the even more hesitant renewal of some sort of a relationship with his father (Tian Zhuangzhuang). Unbeknownst to Gu, his dad has been making semi-regular 300-mile <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s by bicycle to Beijing from his home in a seaside town, just to catch the odd glimpse of his son, daughter and granddaughter. It\u2019s Gu\u2019s affable brother-in-law Li Jun who slips him a note with his father\u2019s address and phone number on it. But it\u2019s the pretty, mercurial Ouyang who will nudge him toward an actual  reunion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The warmth of Piao Songri\u2019s photography is a constant, as is his facility for the offbeat framing of even the most everyday encounter, using doorways or reflections or a quickly shifting focus. And the soundtrack is equally witty, in between the sentimental songs about Beijing that Gu has a tendency to sing when drunk,\u00a0composer Xiao He\u2019s delicately used score has a signature flourish: a sci-fi-ish sting that accompanies most views of the White Pagoda, almost like it\u2019s a UFO hovering in the background of Gu\u2019s life. And if editor Liu Xinzhu\u2019s rhythms seem a little formless at first, that\u2019s deceptive: As \u201cThe Shadowless Tower\u201d ambles onward, it reveals its arcs of change not in dramatic showdowns or sudden revelations, but in ellipses, in the occasional mysterious fold in chronology and, most rewardingly, in the casual, unforced repetition of certain motifs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    These recurrences are like the shadows that others leave on us, the behaviors we\u2019ve picked up from our parents, for example, or the gestures we\u2019ve unconsciously absorbed and mimicked that have now become our own. Gu sees a woman massaging her earlobes on a bus as a relaxation technique and surreptitiously does the same. On a walk through a park, an older man suggests that Gu copy him and walk backwards, facing toward the place he\u2019s leaving; Gu gives it a go. Sometimes, these echoes and imitations forge links that are even further beyond the realms of everyday logic: Ouyang tells Gu he was dancing a waltz in her dream and some time later Gu finds a ballroom-dancing DVD in his father\u2019s tiny seaside apartment. The simple gift of a kite later takes on similar significance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s so much incident and observation here that it\u2019s only subtly we notice Zhang Lu\u2019s overall design: Where a possible future relationship might be faltering before it\u2019s even begun, a broken bond from the past is being cautiously mended. \u201cThe Shadowless Tower\u201d is too wise and too true to the wryly unpredictable winds of fortune to assert that everything will alway balance out so neatly. But it does suggest that middle age has its comforts as well as its disappointments. There are glimmering consolations in becoming aware of the intricate tangle of invisible connections \u2014 to the past, to the people in our orbit, to the place we call home \u2014 that at any moment hold us suspended in the center of our lives. They cannot stop the freefall. 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